A novel β-glucoside-specific PTS locus from Streptococcus mutans that is not inhibited by glucose

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1555-1563

  Cote, Christopher K ^a   Cvitkovitch, Dennis ^b,c   Bleiweis, Arnold S ^b   Honeyman, Allen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aesculin; Phosphoenolpyruvate dependent phosphotransferase system; Streptococcus mutans; Glucosides

Indexed keywords

ARBUTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCULIN; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCOSIDE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM LONGISPORUM; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0033910887     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-7-1555     Document Type: Article

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